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Subject: PYGMY Forth
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Date: 16 Apr 91 02:14:48 GMT
Organization: (n.) to be organized.  But that's not important right now.
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Category 1,  Topic 45
Message 81        Sun Apr 14, 1991
F.SERGEANT [Frank]           at 13:50 CDT
 
 Greg,
  You are correct.  I should not have used the DEFER'd word .HD in both  SHOW
and SHADOW, as once the code for SHADOW has been loaded it screws  up SHOW. 
The quick solution is to reload just the code for SHOW prior  to using SHOW. 
Better would be to DEFER a new word .SHD (shadow  heading) for use with SHADOW
so it would not disturb .HD used by SHOW.
 .
 Yes, when you MAKE a file it has a length of zero, and so needs to  have MORE
added to it before the editor can access it.  An alternative  I sometimes use
is DOS's COPY command.  For example, if I want to  create a new block file
named TEST.SCR I might do  

      C:\PYG\>COPY YOURFILE.SCR TEST.SCR

 from DOS.  If the YOURFILE.SCR that comes with Pygmy hasn't been  changed,
this will create a TEST.SCR file with 8 empty blocks.  
 .
 I haven't particulary needed +LOAD and +THRU yet for what I do, as my  source
code tends to sit at fixed block locations and I'd rather think  in fixed
rather than relative block numbers.  But, I don't object to  them.
 .
 -- Frank
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